Today's post celebrated the remarkable fact that Kurt Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) and Marc Blitzstein (March 2, 1905 – January 22, 1964) share a birthday.
One Fish, Two Fish, Haifisch, Blue Fish
Sinatra and Armstrong brought life
To Weill’s little tune “Mack the Knife,”
But to hear “Mackie Messer”
You couldn’t do besser
Than to listen to Lenya (his wife).
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Rock It Man
When the cast of The Cradle Will Rock
Found the stage for their play under lock,
They took the whole troupe
Across town to regroup,
And gave the performance ad hoc.
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Lost in the Stars?
Against those sincerely suspect
That an astral shared-birthday effect
Led Blitzstein and Weill
To much the same style,
I argue the reason was Brecht.
